780101 Mimulus guttatus DC.
Distribution
Western Alaska: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered
- DC., Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp.: 127 (1813). Described on cultivated plants grown in 1806-1810 from seeds from Unalaska in the Aleutian Island (Alaska), leg. Langsdorff.
2n=
(1) 28 (4x, x = 7). - Alaska, Canada (W), U.S.A. (W), Mexico. - Numerous reports.
(2) 32 (4x, x = 8). - Mia et al. (1964).
(3) 56 (8x, x = 7). - Mia et al. (1964); Vickery et al. (1968).
Not included: More chrosomome numbers are referred by Fedorov (1969): 2n = 16 (one report), 28 (several), 32 (one), 48 (one), and 56 (one). Some later reports are of, e.g., 2n = 14 and 28. As there might be doubts about the identity of the plants, and as cultivars and ornamental hybrids (partly between North and South American species) may have been involved, we have only accepted numbers reported from native western North American plants and in addition the counts of Mia et al. (1964).
Geography: American Pacific - Cordilleran: ALA.
Notes: Murray and Elven: Mimulus guttatus has been found in an arctic geothermal site on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska (ALA). In addition, it reaches the Borderline Arctic in the Yukon River Delta and southwest of the Kuskokwim Mountains (Hultén 1968a).
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Source: Topjabot at Wikispecies
Higher Taxa
- Mimulus [7801,genus]